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| Slide Show: Top 10 New Species Discovered in 2008 Even as species around the globe are rapidly falling prey to extinction, and countless others are threatened, scientists are still turning up new species of plants and animals every year--thousands of them. From the longest insect to the smallest snake, a fascinating diversity of organisms has remained unknown until the past year. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Rare Siberian tigers face potential genetic bottleneck It's been a long century for the Amur, or Siberian, tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), the largest of the six remaining tiger subspecies. Once hunted nearly to extinction, just 50 tigers remained when Russia protected the species in 1947. Despite that protection, illegal poaching soon dropped that number to as few as 20. But enforcement and careful conservation over the ensuring decades have done wonders, and today the worldwide Amur tiger population stands at more than 900--421 in captivity and an estimated 500 in the wild. [More] rss.sciam.com |
When Parents Scream Against Ice Cream In a greener, more health-conscious, unsafe world, the ice cream man has lost some of his mojo. nytimes.com |
What is the Real Cost of Power Production? Market prices don't reflect hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden costs of energy production to human health and the environment, a National Research Council panel said in a report released today."There are many external effects of energy production and use," said Jared Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon University and chairman of the panel that wrote the report. "These are important because they can lead to distortions in decision making." [More] rss.sciam.com |
Where Golden Treasure Came in Bottles and Cans A construction project in the Bronx has unearthed caverns where an old local brewery, Ebling, aged its beer. nytimes.com |